Northern Railroad Company of New Jersey stock certificate 1935 (NJ) 

NJ commuter line. Nice vignette of a steam locomotive traveling right to left. Issued and cancelled. Dated 1935 on the cert. Approximately 10.75 x 6.75 inches. Perf cancellations to the right and signature punch holes.

The Northern Railroad Company of New Jersey (NRNJ) was chartered in 1854 and opened in 1859. It ran from Piermont, New York to Croxton, New Jersey. It was predominantly a commuter railroad and was leased for decades to the Erie Railroad. When it opened on May 28, 1859, it was the second railroad in modern Bergen County (following only the Paterson and Hudson River Railroad) with stage connections to Hackensack and other points. The northern terminal was Piermont, New York on the New York and Erie Rail Road, which had opened in 1841.

The owned mileage of the Northern Railroad Company of New Jersey, extending from Bergen Junction, N. J., to Sparkill, N. Y. was constructed for the company by Seymour and Tower, contractors, during the period from 1858 to September 30, 1859. The records reviewed do not indicate that the contractors were affiliated with the company. After running on the Erie for one mile, trains reached the Northern's own line at Sparkill, New York and ran for 21 miles to another junction with the Erie at Croxton in Jersey City, New Jersey. From there, trains ran on the Erie and the New Jersey Railroad for two and a half miles to the terminal later called Exchange Place. Passengers could continue by ferry to Chambers Street in Manhattan.

Because of its running over the Erie, the Northern was built to the same 6-foot broad gauge. By September 1859, there were three passenger trains in each direction, with one express running from Piermont to Jersey City in 70 minutes. Sometime in the 1860s the Northern began running service westward from Sparkill on the Erie's Piermont Branch as far as Monsey, New York.

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